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WABC Eyewitness News This Morning August 1, 2016

Streets in some areas turning in to rivers. This is a day where we have the potential for flash floodingm places to the west of the city are under the biggest threat today. 69 river most areas in the 70. 71 ridgewood. Monticello, 63 degrees. The rainfall estimates over last 3 hours, we tapered off, the rain left we will see another round in the Flash Flood Watch until 11 tonight. The radar not looking so bad. The combination of hot, muggy weather, instability in the atmosphere and you get the drenching downpours. Heather orourke with a look at fdr drive. Where we have a closure. Because of construction, the northbound side of the fdr drive, detoured at 61st, southbound side, detoured 96. Expect volume on first avenue, second avenue. New Jersey Transit metro north doing fine. 4 and 5 trains, track work in place until 5 00 a. M. Downed alternate side of the Street Parking rules in effect for today. Following breaking news. A hit and run driver killed two men in brooklyn near fulton and chestnut streets. Darla miles is live. Reporter this has been a very emotional morning, a few hours after this accident happened, a few blocks away from where the men had been out all evening. Fulton and chestnut street. The silver accra sped through the intersection and hit two men and parked cars. This is 56 year old torcos one of the victims. This happened after midnight. The guys were hanging out, having a normal evening at a bar. They were walking down the street, this accra sped through the intersection, hit both parked cars and struck both of the men. Mall danano was pronounced dead at brook dale hospital. The other victim died at the scene. He would spend every dollar person he was. Reporter the memorial has been set up by friends. 41 year old maldonado was pronounced dead at the scene. The nypd is looking for the driver of the accra tl. If you were in the area around midnight and know anything or recognize the car and who owns it, 77 tips. Michael blake says he was roughed up by officers. He was trying to diffuse a tense situation on saturday. Blake filed an Excessive Force complaint and called a news demand an investigation. Thousands of protesters planning a rally, calling for an end to Police Brutality and firing of nypd commissioner william bradden. Anthony is live. Reporter good morning, everybody. Look across the street here at broadway and park row. You can see the barricades they surround city hall, out here this morning. A wall stop advance of protesters taking their demands directly to city hall. One of their Top Priorities is the removal of Police Commissioner william bradden and broken windows policy aimed at cracking down on low level crimes a as way to prevent more serious crime. A platform pubbed by the black pda, many chained themselves, saying the union protects officers that shoot black people. They want to end massive incarceration and deportation and adding rights of transgender people. The new york protest is part of a series of actions set to place mace and the country. Calling for defunding nypd. Focused on shutting down city hall park. In past they spread out through the streets and caused major traffic jams, closed off bridges and highways, and criticized by many after the shooting of five Police Officers in dallas on detail dug a black lives matter protest, when the cops balm thing at the of an assassin. Hall, gathering around 9 00 this morning. Events will take place all day long, they are making this a day long event, more people will be able to join. Thats the latest live, anthony johnson, channel 7 Eyewitness News. Nypd on alert after somebody started making threats other a police radio. They tarted a captain at mid up midtown south. Was able to tap in to radio frequencies used by police. Remember how you put me in jail . Im coming to put a bullet in your head. Police dont know in the man is using a lost or stolen radio. Officers are warned to be extra mans body was discovered in harlem, investigators trying to figure out how he died. Body of 70yearold robert pry was found in his apartment on west 135th street, police say his body was found underneath his bed and he suffered injuries to his face and body. Medical examiner will determine the cause of death. Police say a man was drunk when he crashed his boat in to a buoy in suffolk county. He is charged with bti the officers found the boat and took him in to custody. Witnesses at the bar sped off down the ruff after the dispute. Flood watch remains in effect for parts of new jersey this morning. Patterson streets looked like rivers as severe flooding swept through the area. The force of the water carried a garbage and debris down the street in some areas. Inside their cars. Similar scenes played out in lynhurst. Winds and rains caused flooding in several areas. Track the rain with our abc 7ny app. Its free to download or apple and android devices. You are never more than 7 minutes away from weather and traffic. Good morning, happy monday. We have clouds monday morning. Temperatures 70 degrees. Could be sun breaks , the streets are a little bit damp in spots from the drenching downpours we had. Today, still the threat of the localized flooding. Showers could produce too much rain in too short of time. Scattered clouds and the chances for showers. The watches posted , the Flash Flood Watches moved to the most at risk for Severe Weather we will produce the type of flooding we had last night. Most likely during the middle to late part of the day. Keep an eye to the sky. The threat of heavy downpours is off to the west. 80 degrees. Expect it to be cloudy, temperatures in the low to mid 70s through the noon hour. The accuweather sevenday forecast is coming up next. Drive looks, quiet. Its almost too quiet because we have the closure and detours. Fdr drive northbound, all traffic detoured 61st, southbound side detoured 96th street. Expect volume on first avenue, second avenue, york. Definitely use the west side if you can do that. New Jersey Transit Long Island Railroad north running close to schedule. Cleared by a. M. , alternate side of the Street Parking rules in effect for today. Still ahead on eye witness news, a car flipping through the air. Look at that. How Good Samaritans helped save the drivers life. People form a human chain to save a woman trapped in a raging flood. While most kids are splashing in pools, one kid is baking up he is aiming to hit. His inspiring story when eye i know you [laughs] welcome hi were your neighbors. We live across the street. Thanks for this. I see youve got Time Warner Cable and you can record six shows at the same time. Looks like youre all hooked up. Games about to start. Lets do it. Were watching here . Oh yeah. Ohh. How about you and i go watch my favorite show . 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The 24 year old is a person of interest in a shooting that killed one and injured four others in downtown austin. Mccray maybe armed. The rain was one more headache got a dose of flooding thanks to a retaining wall meant to protect a school. Sing says the wall funnels water in his direction every time there is a heavy downpour. The water fills his yard and comes rushing in to his garage. When this stuff dries, its like clay, heavy stuff, you cant get it out that easily. You have to scrub it out. When construction began on a 5 story school, right behind his backyard. Construction is set to be anybodied next year with protection for his house. But sing says he and his property cannot wait that long. Maryland, heavy rain created dangerous flood waters. This video posted to several people are forming a human chain to save a woman from a car being swept down street. It was in el cot city. Two people were killed there. Amazing amounts of rain. All over. Lets check in with meteorologist, amy freeze. It was incredible, the rain started and 30 seconds later , the street was a river. It came down so hard, the showers, that it created this problem, such a short amount of the skyline. A lot of clouds, moisture at the surface, damp roadways, threat of flooding is with us through the afternoon hours. It could be a situation here where we get flash flooding through the afternoon hourses, west of the city hours, west of the city. Winds northeast at 8 miles an hour. Temperatures are in the 70s for the city, bureaus and to the west newark 72. Trenton 73 west. We will may play out like this. Heavy showers to the west. Stray showers possible tuesday. Thats a beginning of a beautiful stretch of weather by the middle of the week. 90s are not with us for the first few days. The area under the watch. Mar. Seeing potential for flooding. Wont rule out a thunderstorm, a quick moving shower that produces heavy rain across the area. Mainly isolated, north and west new jersey. After 3 00, more showers and thunderstorms, north and west of the Higher Elevations, stretching here, sussex and warren county. Tuesday hit or miss, not a big deal, setting the stage beautiful midweek. If you have something you need to get done outdoors or plans tuesday, wednesday and thursday look great. 80 tomorrow. Its going to be a better feeling 80. Showers for the early half of the day, sticky situation through the afternoon hours with the humidity Building Back in. By wednesday looking good, partly sunny, 82. Thursday 85, mostly sunny, humid, heading in to the weekend with temperatures of heat and humidity that will continue, looks like over the weekend w the chance of a shower or thunderstorm, garden variety. Last night, catching up on the rainfall we missed out on maybe, the month of july, how we were talking about the need for rain. Last night we had crazy downpours happening. Many places getting a couple of inches in an hour or two. Thats crazy. Princeton, new jersey, there is 45 inches in one rainstorm coming through which is too much rain in too short of time. Its hard to handle. Maybe we have the same scenario for western new jersey today. Bill was saying we were 5 inches below. We made up for it in a lot of spots. Not every single place. The numbers for this central park, the other areas maybe there is plenty of water in the last 12 hours. We have track work, 4 and 5 trains until 5 00 a. M. This is construction, fdr drive closed down between the 60s and 90s. As you head northbound, you are detoured off at 61st street. Southbound detoured at 96th street. Mass transit doing fine. Street cleaning rules are in effect for today city wide. Police officer in connecticut is recovering in the hospital after being attacked, pierre is accused of punching and kicking danbury officer joe pooler. He saw him pacing and thought he needed help. He hit pooler in the head and get to his car and call for help. Rick scott called for a meeting with county leaders facing the first outbreak of zika, carried by mosquitoes in this country. 4 people in florida are confirmed as domestic cases of the virus. Florida Health Department has been zika prevention kits to pregnant women and warning residents to eliminate standing water to cut down on the risk of mosquitoes breeding near them. A new yo regulators to pick up the pace. Shiewm ser calling on fda to review the process questioning whether they are doing enough to prevent contamination food illnesses. From the time its known the product may have Serious Health consequences like e. Coli or could be months. An 8 year old in california is showing the world that big dreams can take you places. Jalen bailey created a small business, whipping up sweet confections. Jalen makes cookies and banana nut bread and everything in between. He has catered an event and gotten requests. He to make enough money for a big purchase. I wanted to save up money to get a house. I want me and my mom to be happy. He has gone to his First Business mixer and networkd with professionals. He says he is ready to take his business to the next level. Any doubts . News this morning, get ready to roll, dont be surprised if you see more bike os on the street today. Several tractor trailers go up if flames in brooklyn in flames in brooklyn. Hello its our new intern, barts first week here at td bank, hes a robot from one of those other banks. Were training him to bank human. I am banking assistance registration technology. Wait, wait, wait. But you can call me, banking assistance registration technology. Hi amy. Thank you. Thank you. That is not protocol manager jenna. Thats ok bart, it is here. At td bank we do things differently, like having the longest hours of any bank. . . I dont want to lie down. I refuse to lie down. Why suffer . Stand up to chronic migraine. With botox . 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Plans for call more more and more stations across the upper east and west sides and in the brooklyn neighborhoods, carol gardens, gawanas and red hook. New recycling rule affect, the rules eliminate practice the companies recycling based on business type which will help to streamline collection to push the zero waste goals. They take affect today, there is a 1area warning period, violaters could be written after august 1st of next year. You are never more than 7 minutes away from weather and on the rain, the skies settled down a bit, things are looking good. For the temperatures through the morning hours, we will look at upper 60s, low 70s, a chance we could see mid morning showers and thunderstorms in the city, mainly the threat here for flash flood flood willing be west of the city. Flooding will be west of the city. Heather orourke with a look at your commute. Have flashing lights. There is going to be this on going detour. Hopefully lifting it shortly. Northbound side traffic detoured 61st street and southbound detoured 96 street. This section is closed down for now. Divert you to first, second, york, 4 and 5 trains track work should be cleared away. Alternate side of the street for today city wide. Nypd investigating after officers helped a man propose to his girlfriend. They pulled the mans car over, and accused the man and his girlfriend of transporting weapons and drug in a car. When the girlfriend opened the trunk, balloons came pouring out and he got down on one knee. Thats different, right . We are following breaking news in brooklyn, police on the hunt far driver after that crash that left two people dead. Live with details on the car that police are looking for this morning. Several trucks were torched and police are searching for an arsonist who left a local community on edge. The pope weighs in on islam, he refuses to link the faith with violence. Amy freeze has exclusive accuweather forecast, stay with again again again again . Again again General Mills is removing artificial flavors and colors from our cereals. So you can love cereal. [ bus engine revs ] i dont understand. Where do they all go . Well, we have plenty at staples and all at low prices. All right. Get another. Back to school or back for more . Staples has the lowest prices. Period. Police are trying to track men in a violent crash. Donald trump is coming under fire for comments on the family of a fallen soldier. Live with the criticism coming from democrats and republicans. More drenching downpours on the way today. Good morning, im lori stokes. Im thank you for joining us, im ken rosato. It is monday, august 1st, where did july go. You are never more than 7 minutes away from weather and with the accuweather forecast. Happy august 1st, everyone. We start with cloudy skies this morning, temperatures around 70 degrees, the threat of another round of flash flooding, west of the city, that would happen this afternoon. Temperatures now the low to mid 60s, north and west. 69 for poughkeepsie. 68 sussex. Monticello 68. Comfortable temperatures and muggy conditions will make it feel uncomfortable as we go throughout the day. The watches, northwest, Central New Jersey, sussex and warren, the places with seize the bulls eye this afternoon as far as heavy shower development. On the accu track, satellite and radars doesnt look too impressive. There could be a thundershower today. Temperatures will be limited, high of 80 in new york city. Coming up, the full accuweather week and return to the heat and humidity. We are going to keep our eye on the fdr drive. Couple of cars moving. Here we are in the 90s. Lets go to the maps, we have the fdr drive, closure, both directions between the 90s and 60s. This is a construction project. Northbound traffic detoured 61st street, southbound 96th Long Island Railroad metro, doing just fine, we take a look at the tunnel avenue north, accident cleared, utility pole repairs remain. Our street cleaning rules are in effect. We have breaking news. An

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